The best-selling classic book that has revolutionized the consideration of the relationship between beauty and female identity. Every day, women worldwide face a dilemma – how to appear. In a society immersed in the cult of female beauty and youth, the pressure on women to physically conform is constant and ubiquitous. In this iconic, shocking, and candid declaration, Naomi Wolf unveils the tyranny of the beauty myth through the ages and its oppressive function today, at home and work, in literature and media, in relationships between men and women, as well as between women. With timely and clever examples, she addresses the beauty industry and its advertising, revealing the reasons why women are consumed by this destructive obsession.

‘Essential reading’ Guardian ‘A smart, angry, insightful book, and a cry for freedom. Every woman should read it’ Gloria Steinem

Pages: 352, Dimensions: 13x13cm